Generation Wild Tour With Deniz Koyu, Danny Avila, dBerrie and Mikael Weermets Thursday, February 14, 2013 Better Than: Speed dating for a Valentine’s companion. Did the youth of Miami prove they party hardest? Last night, the Generation Wild Tour made its stop at LIV for a crowd of eye-contact enthusiasts,…
It’s the worst feeling in the world; you’ve washed the blood off your hands and packed the corpse in the trunk when, all of a sudden, you and your accomplices find a heavily bandaged wheelchair-bound man on the side of the road. Exposed only by a small hole in the…
With Made Event’s longstanding Sunday School party going kaput before Winter Music Conference 2012, revelers were deprived of a properly epic closing party. But then SAFE Miami, Embrace Miami, and Liaison Artists came to the rescue with their first annual installment of Last Resort at Villa 221, the most buzzed-about…
Ultra Music Festival is goin’ on tour, beat freaks. So if you don’t have the massive cash stash for a road trip to the flagship in the MIA (or enough frequent flyer rewards points for a jet ride to Ultra Europe in Croatia), just rendezvous with the UMF crew, Fedde…
The northern English city of Leeds is a real hotbed of electronic dance music. A few talented natives we’ve chatted with in the past include Simon Baker, Paul Woolford and Death on the Balcony. And another illustrious act hailing from Leeds is Audiojack, the DJ-production duo of Jamie Rial and Rich…
In almost month, Ultra Music Festival will kick off its six-day marathon of EDM madness in Bayfront Park and with it bring a slew of electronic acts to Miami, some of which you can catch pretty often at Miami-area nightclubs and others that rarely (if ever) make Magic City cameos.We…
The current state of the game isn’t strong. Back in the late ’90s, stagnant rap got a righteous kick in the gonads from the whole “backpack” movement. Now in the 2000s, the hip-hop scene has become rife with repetitive ring-tones and IQ-lowering catch phrases. And there ain’t much opposition out…
God bless Atlanta, dammit. In terms of hip-hop, the ATL is always at the forefront of swag, pumping out bangers from some of the game’s crunkest solo artists and rap crews. Among them are three MCs — Ali, Quez and Strap — from the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, known collectively…
At first, you were afraid. You were petrified. Kept thinkin’ you could never live without tickets to Gloria Gaynor’s disco party at Casino Miami Jai-Alai this weekend. But then Crossfade showed up with a bunch of free tix. And you grew strong. And you learned how to get along. Go…
It’s a dark night in California and Fishbone bass player Norwood Fisher’s forearms strain as he applies a vicious chokehold to the throat of childhood friend and bandmate Kendall Jones, whose eyes bulge from their sockets. He’s nearly unconscious from the lack of oxygen to his brain. Still, Kendall throws…
While Internet-era culture boosters promote the idea that anyone can write, record, and produce quality music, Tucson-based rapper Murs does not. A veteran hip-hop hustler who broke onto the underground scene as a solo artist when he released F’Real in 1997, Murs encourages artists to think twice about what they’re…
When was the last time you got down on your knees and kissed Miami? What, never? Well, get down and start kissing, because this town loves you. Do you understand how lucky you are to be here? Supreme talent comes through this place every day. It’s just not natural for…
It’s 5 a.m., and an impromptu, collective chant to the tune of the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” fills the streets of Baltimore. The city’s beloved Ravens were crowned Super Bowl XLVII champions roughly eight hours ago, but the team’s diehard fans are still celebrating the victory with the squad’s…
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Thursday, February 7, 2013 Better Than: A cold beer, a shot of whiskey, and a good cry. All the old outlaws are only getting older. Last night, though, the Red-Headed Stranger and the Okie From Muskogee proved that they might be…
In 1984, poet Jean Smith teamed up with guitarist David Lester to form the feminist indie rock duo, Mecca Normal. A few years later, their blueprint of punk spunk and explicit politics (sexual and otherwise) played a big role in the cultivation of the ’90s Riot Grrrl movement. Fast forward…
In Brazil, it’s summertime. And right about now, the half-naked party masses of Carnaval are already rocking like Ultra Music Festival was an actual nation of millions. Rio bass pounds through the favelas, echoes through the mansions, rolls across the mountaintops, shoots up the Gulf Stream like El Niño, and…
GTA LIV, Miami Beach Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Better Than: Sitting at home waiting for the next GTA game to come out. DJ-producer duo GTA headlined LIV for the first time last night. With Miami being their home turf, they had some surprises in store for the crowd. We arrived…
We really are incredibly lucky here in Miami. Most people across the country save up their money and their energy for that one big show that comes around every three months or so. Here in our cradle of bass, we have tons of awesome artists coming in every couple of…
It’s only happened once, and it wasn’t even real — a recreational pot-smoking session gone terribly wrong. Blanche was simply playing the piano cartoonishly fast to soothe Ralph’s mind. But when Jack showed up unexpectedly, Ralph lost his shit and killed the man. The police arrived shortly thereafter and arrested…
Last year, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Crosstown Rebels kingpin Damian Lazarus about the underground musical ethos behind his label and global party brand. “As our artists grow from strength to strength on a global scale, our sound becomes more popular,” he told us. “But this was…
It’s February, and that means Cupid’s arrow may soon pierce your little heart and cripple your vulnerable soul with love. Or maybe it’s something that feels like love, but actually turns out to be a costly gaffe. Whatever. At the end of the day, we’re all just a little “Lost…
The XX The Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Better Than: Any other XX show up to this point, probably. The XX just played their 100th show earlier this week. But until about 13 hours ago, the Brit indie-pop crew had never been to Miami. It’s a difficult market,…
